The Beginnings of Writing

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz adults alphabet Annabrook assignment audience baby beginning writers carrot chapter Charles Read chil child children learn children's early children's writing classroom composition consonants digraph discussion distinctive features draft early writing Eleanor Gibson English spelling example expository expressive voice flexibility principle function Grade 1 Note Grade 2 FIGURE graphic displays hear ideas ideographic Ignace Gelb International Reading Association invented spelling Kindergarten KIT for cat Lavine learn to talk learning to write letter forms letter-name Linda Lavine look like writing Marie Clay marks mean Michael Halliday morpheme Note spelling paper parents patterns picture piece poetic voice produce pronunciation reader rehearsal represent revision rules samples sentences sign concept sometimes speech sounds spellers standard spelling story strategy syllables symbols teacher things topic transactional voice vowel WJOL writing process writing system written language wrote young children YUTS